Isaiah 29 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Hold consultation; exalt vain comfort. Ah city Ariel, against which David fought! collect provisions year after year; eat; for you shall eat with Moab; ² for I will bring distress upon Ariel, and her strength and her riches shall be for me. ³ I will indeed encompass thee as David did; and surround thee with a rampire; and erect towers around thee. ⁴ But when thy words shall be brought down to the ground; and shall be as if they sounded out of the earth; and thy voice on the ground shall be feeble; ⁵ then shall the riches of the wicked be as the dust of a wheel, and the multitude of thine oppressors as chaff blown away: and this shall be as in a moment, suddenly. ⁶ For from the Lord of Hosts there will be a visitation: a hurricane and a devouring flame of fire, with thunder and an earthquake and a mighty noise; ⁷ and the wealth of all the nations which encamped against Ariel, and all they who are warring against Jerusalem, and all who have been assembled against her, and those distressing her, shall be like one dreaming dreams by night: ⁸ and like men who in sleep are eating and drinking, but when they awake the dream is vain: even as a thirsty man dreameth that he drinketh, and when he waketh he is still athirst, his soul having trusted in a shadow: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, who have warred against mount Sion. ⁹ [p] Be sunk in dejection and stand astonished; be drunk and reel, not with wine nor strong drink; ¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things, ¹¹ all these prophesies will be to you like the words of a book which is sealed: which when they give to a man skilled in letters, saying, Read this: He will say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed. ¹² And should the book be put in the hands of an illiterate man, and they say to him, Bead that, he will say, I do not know letters. ¹³ The Lord hath indeed said, [J] "This people draw near to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me; but their heart is far from me: and in vain do they worship me, teaching the commands and doctrines of men: ¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to the removal of this people and I will remove them; and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and darken the understanding of the prudent." ¹⁵ Alas! for them, who deeply form a design, but not by the Lord. Alas! for them, who form designs in secret, that their works may be in darkness; and who will say, "Who hath seen us, and who can find out us, or what we do?" ¹⁶ Are not you to be considered as the potter's clay? Shall the thing formed say to the former of it, thou hast not made me. Or shall the work say to the Workman thou hast not made me wisely? ¹⁷ Is it not a little while, ere Libanus shall be changed to a likeness of Mount Carmel? And Carmel be accounted a forest? ¹⁸ And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and they in darkness, even they in thick darkness; the eyes even of the blind shall see; ¹⁹ and the distressed shall exult with joy because of the Lord; and the disconsolate among men shall be filled with joy. ²⁰ The lawless one hath failed, and the haughty one is destroyed, and these are utterly cut off who maliciously commit iniquity, ²¹ and who by reasoning cause men to err. But as for all them who reprove in the gates they will indeed lay a stumbling block, because of their having turned aside the righteous one for the unrighteous, ²² therefore, thus saith the Lord respecting the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraham; "Jacob will not be ashamed now, nor will he now change his countenance; ²³ but when his children shall see my works, because of me they will hallow my name. They will hallow the Holy One of Jacob, and tremble before the God of Israel. ²⁴ And they who have erred in spirit will gain knowledge, and the murmurers shall be taught obedience, and the trifling tongues will learn to speak peace."

⁹ And David made his abode in the fort, so it was called the city of David. And David built the city, around the citadel and his own house.

¹¹ "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" saith the Lord: I am cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats I have no delight; ¹² nor should you come to appear before me: for who hath required these at your hands? You shall no more be admitted to tread my court. ¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: ¹⁴ your fasting and cessation from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer remit your sins. ¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood.

¹² Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourning, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with sackcloth, ¹³ yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and sacrificing sheep, that they might eat flesh and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

⁹ For with a rock they shall be enclosed as with a rampart, and shall be subdued; and he who fleeth shall be taken. Thus saith the Lord; Happy he who hath a seed in Sion and a family in Jerusalem!

³ As for the wicked man, who sacrificeth to me a young bull: he is one who slayeth a dog: and though he offereth me fine flour: it will be as the blood of swine. Though he offereth incense for a memorial, he is as a blasphemer. As they have chosen their own ways: and their soul hath delighted in their abominations:

²¹ Thus saith the Lord, Collect your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices and eat flesh.

¹⁵ Then the ariel four cubits and from the ariel and upwards the horns one cubit. ¹⁶ And the ariel is twelve cubits long by twelve broad, the four angles and sides being equal.

⁶ they will go with sheep and young bulls to seek the Lord, but they shall not find him, because he hath withdrawn from them.

¹³ For what purpose soever they offer sacrifices and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them; he will now remember their iniquities and punish their sins. They turned back to Egypt, therefore among the Assyrians they shall eat unclean things.

⁴ They did not pour out wine to the Lord nor offer him sweet incense; their sacrifices shall be to them like the bread of affliction; all that eat thereof shall be polluted. Seeing their funeral loaves cannot come into the house of the Lord,

⁴ You have gone to Baithel and committed transgression, to Galgala and multiplied transgressions, and have offered your sacrifices every morning, and your tythes every three days; ⁵ for having publicly read a law they proclaimed thanksgivings. Proclaim them, because in such things the children of Israel delight, saith the Lord.

⁶ [Balak.] "By what mean shall I gain over the Lord? Shall I take him for my God most high? Shall I gain him over by whole burnt offerings; by calves of a year old? ⁷ Will the Lord accept me for thousands of rams or myriads of fat goats? Must I give my first born for iniquity; the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul."

¹ For the law having a shadow of the good things to come and not the very image of those things, can by no means make them who present themselves, perfect for ever by those sacrifices which they offer year after year.

²⁶ and your wardrobes shall mourn; and thou shalt be left solitary and shalt sit on the ground;

²⁵ Wherefore the Lord of Hosts was incensed against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and smote them: and the mountains were convulsed, and their carcasses were as dung in the high way: and for all this his anger was not turned away; but still his hand is high. ²⁶ Therefore he will erect a standard among the nations far off, and summon them from the extremity of the earth; and behold! with speed they are coming swiftly. ²⁷ They will not hunger, nor will they be weary: they will not slumber, nor lie down to sleep; nor shall their girdles be loosed from their loins, nor the latchets of their sandals broken. ²⁸ Their arrows are sharp; and their bows are bent: the hoofs of their horses have been accounted as flint, and the wheels of their chariots are like a whirlwind. ²⁹ They growl like lions, and are at hand like young lions. He will seize and roar like a wild beast and drive out the people, and there shall be none to deliver them. ³⁰ On that day he will roar against them like the roaring of the billowy sea; and they will look upwards to the heaven and down on the earth; and lo! distressful darkness in their tribulation.

⁵ Ho! Assyrians! The rod of my wrath, even mine anger is in their hands, ⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

³² comfort with the news of his halting a day on his march with the hand comfort the mount, the daughter of Sion. And as for you, hills, which are in Jerusalem,

¹⁴ Toward evening there will be grief; before morning they shall be no more. This is the portion of them who have plundered you; and this the inheritance of them, who have taken possession of you.

¹ Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein. ² And it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the debtor, so with the creditor. ³ With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with spoiling this land will be ransacked: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this. ⁴ The land mourned and this empire is destroyed; the lofty people of the land mourned. ⁵ As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant, ⁶ therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left. ⁷ The wine will mourn, the vineyard will mourn, and all that were merry hearted will sigh. ⁸ The mirth of the tabrets hath ceased, the sound of the kithara is no more. ⁹ They are confounded: they have drunk no wine. The palm wine was bitter to them who drank it. ¹⁰ Every city is desolated: the houses will be shut up that none may enter. ¹¹ Raise the mournful cry every where for the wine. A stop is put to all the joy of the land; all the joy of the land is gone. ¹² The cities will be left desolate, and the houses being forsaken will be destroyed.

⁷ then behold with the dread of you they shall be terrified; they, of whom you have been afraid, will for fear of you raise a grievous cry. Messengers will be sent weeping bitterly, suing for peace. ⁸ For their highways shall be deserted, the dread of the nations is at an end and the treaty with them broken. And you will account them common men. ⁹ The land mourned; Lebanon was ashamed; Saron was become fens; Galilee and Channel were bare.

⁶ [p] The sword of the Lord hath been glutted with blood; it is pampered with suet; with the blood of he; goats and lambs, and with the suet of goats and rams. Because there is a sacrifice for the Lord in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea;

²² Then Eliakim the son of Chelkias the steward, and Somnas the secretary at war and Joach the son of Asaph the recorder went to Ezekias with their clothes rent and told him the words of Rabsakes.

³ "This day is a day of trouble and of reproach and of rebuke and of wrath; for pangs are come on a woman in travail and she hath not strength to bring forth.

²⁸ Therefore thus said the Lord the God of Israel, This city will assuredly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it. ²⁹ And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and burn this city with fire; and they will burn those houses on the tops of which they have offered incense to Baal and poured out libations to strange gods, to provoke me. ³⁰ Because the children of Israel and the children of Juda have done nothing but evil before mine eyes from their youth; ³¹ because this very city hath been an object of my wrath and of my resentment from the day it was built to this day; ³² let him remove it from my presence on account of all the iniquities of the children of Israel and Juda, which they and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets, the men of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done to provoke me.

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⁵ The Lord became like an enemy. He overwhelmed Israel. He sunk her palaces. He destroyed his own munitions, and multiplied on the daughter of Juda humiliation on humiliation.

³¹ therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord.

³ and speak a parable against that provoking family, and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Set on the cauldron and pour water into it; ⁴ and throw into it the pieces of meat, every choice piece, the flesh of the thigh and the shoulder separated from the bones, ⁵ and these of the choicest cattle; and burn the bones under them. It hath boiled and the bones have been sodden in it. ⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ah! bloody city! a kettle, in which there is verdigrease in its very substance, and that verdigrease is not gone out of it. She hath brought it out on every member of her: no lot fell upon her. ⁷ Because her blood is in the midst of her; I have ordered it to be poured out on a smooth stone: I have not poured it on the ground for the earth to cover it. ⁸ That wrath may be kindled and vengeance executed, I have ordered the blood to be poured out on a smooth stone, that it may not be concealed. ⁹ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile, ¹⁰ and heap on wood and cause the fire to burn, that the flesh may be consumed and the broth evaporated: ¹¹ and it shall stand on the coals that the brass may be heated red hot and melted in the midst of its impurity and its verdigrease quite destroyed; ¹² so that this its abundant verdigrease may not proceed from it. ¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath?

¹⁷ Thou, therefore, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord, Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Assemble and come: assemble from all around to my sacrifice, to the great sacrifice which I have made for you on the mountains of Israel; and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

⁷ Be struck with awe, at the presence of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord is near at hand. Because the Lord hath prepared his sacrifice and hallowed his guests; ⁸ therefore it shall come to pass in the day of the sacrifice of the Lord, that I will execute vengeance on the chiefs and on the house of the king, and on all them who are clothed with strange apparel.

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds which fly in mid-heaven saying, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them mounted on them and the flesh of all both freemen and slaves, both small and great.

¹⁷ Nevertheless the king of Assyria sent Tharthan and Raphis, and Rapsakes of Lachis, to king Ezekias with a great army against Jerusalem. And when they had marched up and arrived at Jerusalem they halted at the conduit of the upper pool, which is by the high way to the fuller's field,

³² Therefore thus saith the Lord respecting the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city; nor shall he shoot an arrow there. A shield shall not approach it, nor shall he raise a mount against it.

¹¹ Now when Nebuchodonosar came to the city, and his servants laid siege to it, ¹² Joachim king of Juda, went out to the king of Babylon, he and his servants and his mother and his chiefs and his officers; and the king of Babylon in the eighth year of his reign, took him,

¹ Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon came up with his whole army against Jerusalem, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, and encamped against it and built a circumvallation against it, ² and the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedekias. ³ On the ninth of that month when the famine prevailed in the city so that there was not bread for the people of the land, ⁴ a breach was made into the city: and all the men of the army went out by night by the way of the gate between the walls, namely the gate of the king's garden, while the Chaldeans besieged the city round about. And the king took the way to Araba.

²² The oracle against Jerusalem is favourable, to throw up a rampart, to open his mouth with a war cry; to raise his voice with shouting, to cast up a rampart against her gates to raise a mount and build towers for his engines.

⁷ When the king heard this he was incensed, and sent forth his armies, and destroyed the murderers, and burned their city.

⁴³ For days will come upon thee, when thine enemies will surround thee with a rampire; and enclose thee; and shut thee up on every side; ⁴⁴ and dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and not leave one stone on another; because thou didst not know the time of this thy visitation.

²⁵ Because our soul is humbled to the dust, and our belly cleaveth to the ground;

¹¹ "For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts is against every scorner and haughty man; and against every one high and lofty, and they shall be humbled: ¹³ even against every of those high towering cedars of Lebanon; and against every oak of Basan; ¹⁴ and against every lofty mountain; and against every hill that is high; ¹⁵ and against every stately tower; and against every high raised wall; ¹⁶ and against every ship of the sea; and against every ensign of beauteous ships: ¹⁷ [[J] Jehovah] and every man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of these men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹⁸ Then will they hide all these handiworks, ¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands. ²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities; ²¹ that they may go into holes of the flinty rock: nay into the very clefts of the rock, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the land.

⁸ Because Jerusalem is forsaken and Judea is fallen therefore their tongues concur with their transgression. They disbelieve the things relating to the Lord.

¹⁹ if they should say to you, "Apply to the belly speakers, and to them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground. Those vain babblers who speak from the belly: should not a nation apply to their God? Why consult they the dead concerning the living?

²³ And I will put it into the hands of them, who have injured thee and oppressed thee; who have said to thy soul, Crouch down that we may walk over thee, when thou hadst bent thy body down level with the earth in the street, to them passing along.

⁹ Her unclean ness was before her feet. She was insensible to her extreme distress. He hath indeed lowered her haughtiness; there is none who comforteth her. Lord, behold my affliction because the enemy is magnified.

¹⁸ and they be like chaff driven by the wind, or like dust swept away by a whirlwind?

⁴ Not so the wicked; not so. They are like the chaff, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

⁵ who are devising evils against me. Let them be like dust before the wind, when the angel of the Lord is afflicting them.

⁵ God is in the midst of it; it cannot be shaken; God by his presence will support it. ⁶ The nations were troubled, kingdoms tottered; he uttered his voice, the earth was shaken.

⁵ all the foolish hearted, were struck with consternation. All those mighty men have slept their sleep, and found nothing of their wealth for their hands. ⁶ At thy rebuke, God of Jacob, they who had mounted their horses fell fast asleep.

¹⁶ indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled: ¹⁷ and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and shall hallow him with a burning fire, and consume his substance like dry grass. ¹⁸ On that day there shall be an extinction of the mountains, and the hills, and the forests; and it shall consume from the soul even to the flesh: and he who fleeth shall be like one fleeing from blazing fire. ¹⁹ And those of them who are left shall be few in number, so that a child may write them down.

¹³ The multitude of nations being like a great flood, their flight shall be like that of a mighty torrent rolling on impetuously. For he will repulse them with scorn, and pursue them to a great distance, like chaff before the wind when men winnow, or as a tempest driveth the dust of a wheel. ¹⁴ Toward evening there will be grief; before morning they shall be no more. This is the portion of them who have plundered you; and this the inheritance of them, who have taken possession of you.

⁵ [p] When dispirited men shall be thirsting in Sion on account of wicked men to whom thou hast delivered us up;

¹³ therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall of which is instantaneous.

³ against an Egyptian; a man, not a god; against the flesh of horses in which there is no help. When the Lord shall lay his hand upon them, then shall these helpers fail and be all destroyed together.

⁸ therefore Assur shall fall; not by the sword of a man of valour, nor shall the sword of a mortal devour him; and he shall flee; [not from the face of the sword] and the young men shall be for destruction.

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive.

³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

¹⁰ The Lord will make his adversary weak. Holy is the Lord. Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom, Nor the mighty man boast of his power; Nor let the rich man boast of his riches: But let him who boasteth, boast of this; That the Lord understandeth, and knoweth, And that he executeth judgment and justice in the land. The Lord ascended up to heaven and thundered; He will judge the highest on earth: To our kings he giveth power, And he will exalt the horn of his anointed.

¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

¹⁴ The Lord thundered from heaven, The Most High uttered his voice.

² Behold the wrath of the Lord is a harsh and terrible thing. Like a tempest of hail furiously driven when there is no shelter, like a mighty deluge sweeping a country. In this land it will put a stop to the labour of hands;

³⁰ When the Lord shall cause the glory of his voice to be heard; when, to display the fury of his arm with wrath and indignation and consuming fire, he shall utter tremendous thunder, accompanied with a furious tempest of rain and hail.

¹¹ now shall I be exalted; now you shall see: now you shall feel. The strength of your spirit shall be vain; a fire shall utterly devour you; ¹² and nations shall be burned up, as thorns in a field are rejected and burned. ¹³ The far distant nations shall hear what I have done, they who are near shall know my power. ¹⁴ The transgressors in Sion are fled; terror will seize the ungodly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? who will proclaim to you the place which is everlasting?

⁷ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in divers places. And there will be famines and commotions. These are the beginnings of sorrows.

¹¹ And there will be great earthquakes in divers places; and famines, and pestilences. And there will be awful sights and great signs from heaven.

¹³ and at that period there was a great earthquake and the tenth part of the city fell and seven thousand names of men were destroyed by the earthquake. And the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened; and the ark of his covenant in his temple was seen. And there were lightnings and noises and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

¹⁸ And there were noises and thunders and lightnings and there was a great earthquake, such, that there had not been since men were on the earth such an extensive, so great a shock.

⁸ Like a dream which is gone, he cannot be found. He is vanished, like a spectre in the night.

²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;

¹¹ Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as nothing and all thine opponents shall be destroyed. ¹² Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against thee shall be no more.

³¹ upon a part of the earth; because the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will come to judgment with all flesh; and the wicked shall be given up to the sword, saith the Lord. ³² Thus saith the Lord, Behold evils are coming from nation to nation. A mighty tempest is issuing forth from the extremity of the earth, ³³ and the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be buried. They shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

⁴² The sea came up against Babylon with its roaring waves, and she is overwhelmed. ⁴³ Her cities are become like a land without water, an untrodden desert. Not an individual can dwell there: nor can a son of man lodge in her. ⁴⁴ [J] I will indeed punish Babylon and bring forth out of her mouth what she hath swallowed. And the nations shall no more be gathered together to her; nor shall the victims of the whole earth fall by Babylon.

¹¹ Now indeed many nations are assembled against thee, saying, "Let us rejoice exceedingly and let our eyes look upon Sion." ¹² But they did not know the determination of the Lord nor understand his counsel. Because he hath gathered them as sheaves for a threshing floor,

³ [a] The Lord is slow to anger, though his power is great; will not the Lord then acquit the innocent? Is his way in destruction and whirlwind, when clouds are the dust of his feet? [[a] An objection, [b] The answer] ⁴ When he rebuketh the sea he maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel are diminished and the bloom of Libanus languished. ⁵ At him the mountains quake and the hills tremble; at his presence the earth is startled; the World and all its inhabitants. ⁶ At the presence of his wrath who can stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to pieces. ⁷ [b] The Lord is kind to them who wait for him in a day of distress: and he knoweth them who reverence him. ⁸ When with a deluging march he maketh destruction; them who raise themselves up and are his enemies, darkness shall pursue. ⁹ What are you devising against the Lord? He will make complete destruction, and not punish twice by distress for the same thing. ¹⁰ Because one shall be utterly destroyed, and consumed like bindweed and dry stubble; ¹¹ shall a reasoning against the Lord proceed from thee; wicked city, devising2 things in opposition? ¹² Thus saith the Lord, With respect to the ruler of many waters! they shall be so dispersed, that what thou hearest shall be heard no more.

³ and in that day I will make Jerusalem a stone to be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her will make her his mocking stock. When all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against her, ⁴ in that day saith the Lord Almighty, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness. But upon the house of Juda I will open mine eyes. When I smite all the horses of the peoples with blindness, ⁵ then will Juda's captains of thousands say in their hearts, "We shall find those for us who inhabit Jerusalem by the Lord Almighty their God."

⁹ And it shall come to pass, in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹ Behold days of the Lord are coming, when thy spoils shall be divided in thee. ² I will indeed gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women polluted. And the half of the city shall go forth into captivity. As for the remainder of my people they shall not be utterly cut off. From this city, ³ the Lord indeed will come forth and draw up in array among the nations, as in the day of his array in the day of battle;

¹² And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem; their flesh shall waste away while they stand on their feet; and their eyes shall melt from their sockets, and their tongue shall rot in their mouth. ¹³ And in that day there shall be a great dread of the Lord upon them. And they will lay hold, every one, on the hand of his neighbour and his hand will be grasped in his neighbour's hand. ¹⁴ And Juda will draw up in array in Jerusalem and collect the wealth of all the peoples around; gold and silver and raiment in great abundance. ¹⁵ And the plague of the horses and the mules and the camels and the asses; that of all the cattle in those camps shall be the same as this plague.

⁸ and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth Gog and Magog to assemble them for battle; the number of whom will be as the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they came up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

²¹ the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty man, and warrior, including chief and general, in the camp of the king of Assur. So he returned with shame to his own land, and went to the house of his god, and some of them who sprang from his loins slew him with the sword.

⁷ But he did not harbour such thoughts; nor did he reason thus in his mind; but his mind will prompt him to destroy nations not a few. ⁸ Even though they should say to him, Thou alone art chief. ⁹ He indeed will say, "Have I not taken the whole country above Babylon and Chalene, where the tower had been builded? Nay have I not taken Arabia and Damascus and Samaria? ¹⁰ In the same manner as I have taken these; so will I take all the governments. Howl ye graven images in Jerusalem and in Samaria; ¹¹ for as I have done to Samaria and her images, so will I do to Jerusalem and her idols." ¹² But it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath accomplished his whole work on mount Sion and Jerusalem; that I will cast a look on the stout heart; on the chief ruler of the Assyrians, and on the loftiness of the glory of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, "With this power I will perform exploits; and by the wisdom of mine understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and make a prey of their strength, ¹⁴ and shake inhabited cities, and seize with my hand the whole World as a nest; and carry off the inhabitants like deserted eggs. There is none who can escape me or chirp against me." ¹⁵ Shall an axe boast without him who cutteth with it; or a saw lift itself up, without him who draweth it; as one could lift up a staff or a piece of wood? No; this shall not be permitted: ¹⁶ indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled:

¹² for the carpenter sharpened an axe, with a hatchet he modelled it; then he put it into a lathe and with his strong arm fashioned it. Though he be hungry and faint, he must not drink water.

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me.

¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

⁷ For by wine these were made transgressors; they were led astray by strong drink. Priest and prophet were stupefied with strong drink; they were gorged with wine; they were agitated by drunkenness; they reeled to8 and fro. This is oracling! ⁸ A curse shall devour their counsel; for their counsel is for the sake of gain.

¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things,

²⁶ And they who afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh, and drink like new wine their own blood and be made drunk; and all flesh shall know that it is I the Lord who delivered thee. And who uphold the strength of Israel.

¹⁷ Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem who hast drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his indignation. For thou hast drunk the cup of horror; the great cup of his wrath; and drained it.

²¹ Therefore hear, thou, who hast been humbled, and who art drunk, but not with wine. ²² Thus saith the Lord, the God who judgeth his people, Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of horror; the great cup of mine indignation; and thou shalt no more drink it again.

¹² At this the heaven was astonished and shocked exceedingly, saith the Lord.

⁹ [p] My heart within me was broken. All my bones quivered. I was like a man sore bruised and like a man staggering with wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the comeliness of his glory;

²⁷ And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send among you.

⁷ Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, furnishing a plentiful draught to all the nations. Of her wine the nations drank, therefore they reeled.

²¹ Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Idumea who dwellest in the land. To thee however the cup of the Lord will come and thou shalt drink and vomit.

⁵ [J] See ye despisers! and view intently and be amazed at wonderful things and vanish. For in your days I am doing a work which you will not believe though one tell you.

⁴⁵ Then he cometh to these disciples of his, and saith to them, Are you still sleeping and taking repose? Behold the hour is come, and the son of man is delivered up into the hands of sinners.

⁴¹ Then he cometh the third time, and saith to them, Are you still asleep and taking rest? It is over. The hour is come. Behold the son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

⁴⁰ Take heed therefore that what is said in the prophets may not come upon you ⁴¹ "Behold ye despisers, and express your amaze and vanish. For I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe, though one tell you."

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze.

⁹ Now heretofore in Israel, when any one went to consult God, he spoke thus, Come let us go to the Seer; for the people in former times called the prophet, Seer.

¹² So David took the lance, and the cup of water from his pillow, and went away; and there was none who saw, nor was there one who perceived, nor one who awaked. They were all fast asleep. For a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.

²³ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, and bow down their neck continually.

² the giant and mighty man and warrior; judge and prophet; instructor and elder; ³ the captain of fifty, and honourable counsellor; the skilful architect and intelligent scholar:

⁹ And he said, "Go and say to this people; hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive: ¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

¹⁴ therefore, behold, I will proceed to the removal of this people and I will remove them; and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and darken the understanding of the prudent."

¹⁰ who say to the prophets, " Preach not to us, " and to them who see visions, " Speak not to us, nay, speak to us and tell us another error,

¹⁸ They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts:

⁸ And when Jeremias had done speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to deliver to all the people; the priests and the false prophets and all the people seized him, saying, ⁹ Thou shalt be put to death, because thou hast prophesied in the name of the Lord saying, "This house shall be like Selo, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitants." And all the people were assembled against Jeremias in the house of the Lord. ¹⁰ When the chiefs of Juda heard the affair, they went up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the vestibule of the new gate. ¹¹ And the priests and the false prophets addressed the chiefs, and said to all the people, Let sentence of death pass on this man, because he hath prophesied against this city as you have heard with your ears.

⁹ And with respect to that prophet when he shall have wandered and spoken; I the Lord have caused that prophet to wander, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

¹² Moreover Amasias said to Amos, "Begone, seer. Get thee to the land of Juda and dwell there; and prophesy there: ¹³ but against Baithel thou shalt not continue to prophesy; for it is the sanctuary of the king. It is the king's house."

¹ and he will say, "Hear these things ye children of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, is it not your business to know judgment?

⁶ Therefore from vision you shall have night; and from prophesying you shall have darkness. And the sun shall set upon the prophets, and upon them the day shall darken:

²⁶ saying, "Go and say to the people, Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand; and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ²⁷ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn that I may heal them."

⁸ As it is written, "God hath given them a spirit of stupefaction, eyes not to see and ears not to hear even to this day."

⁴ with which the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the disbelieving, that the splendour of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is an image of God, may not shine upon them.

⁹ of him, whose coming is according to the energy of satan, with' all the power, and signs, and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹⁶ Then shall they be manifest who seal up the law that it may not be learned. Then will one say, "I will wait for God, who hath turned away his face from the house of Jacob; and I will trust in him.

⁴ As for thee, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book till the time of accomplishment; until many be taught and knowledge abound.

⁹ And he said, Come Daniel. Because these words are shut up and sealed until the end of a time.

²⁵ At that time Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, hast revealed them to babes.

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering, said to him, Happy art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed this to thee, but my father who is in heaven.

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne a volume written within and on the back sealed with seven seals. ² And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the volume, even to loosen the seals of it." ³ And no one in the heaven, nor on the earth, nor beneath the earth was able to open the volume and look into it. ⁴ And when I was weeping much because no one was found worthy to open and read the volume; even to look into it, ⁵ one of the elders saith to me, "weep not; behold! the lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the volume and to loose the seven seals thereof." ⁶ Then I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four animate beings and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as if it had been slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. ⁷ And he went and took the book out of the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne. ⁸ And when he took the book, the four animate beings and the four and twenty elders fell down before the lamb, having, every of them, kitharas and golden cups full of incense which is the prayers of the saints. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou hast been slain and hast purchased us for God with thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

¹ And I looked when the lamb opened the first of the seals and I heard the first of the four animate beings say as with a voice of thunder, "Come and see."

¹² [f] The sententious speeches of the false prophets.] "This is the rest for him who is hungry: and this is the destruction, but they would not hear" ¹³ Therefore the oracle of God will be to them" Affliction on affliction; hope on hope, yet a little while, yet a little while" that they may proceed on and fall backwards; and they shall be broken and snared and caught.

¹⁸ And in that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and they in darkness, even they in thick darkness; the eyes even of the blind shall see;

⁴ Then I said, perhaps they are poor, therefore they could not. Because they have not known the way of the Lord and the judgment of God,

⁶ my people is like one that hath not knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, therefore I will reject thee from being my priest: as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I also will forget thy children.

¹⁵ And the Jews expressed astonishment, saying, How came this man acquainted with letters, having never had an education? ¹⁶ Jesus addressing them, said, This doctrine of mine is not mine, but his, who sent me.

¹ Ezekias was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abia. She was a daughter of Zacharias. ² He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. ³ Accordingly when he was settled in his kingdom, in the first month he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. ⁴ Then he brought in the priests and the Levites, and having placed them on the east side, ⁵ he said to them, Hearken, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and hallow the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and remove the uncleanness out of the Holies. ⁶ Because our fathers apostatised, and did evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and forsook him, and turned away their face from the tabernacle of the Lord, and hardened their neck, ⁷ and shut the doors of the temple and extinguished the lamps, and did not burn incense, nor offer whole burnt offerings in this holy place, to the God of Israel; ⁸ therefore the Lord hath been provoked to wrath against Juda and Jerusalem, and hath made them an astonishment and a desolation, and an object of pity, as you see with your eyes. ⁹ For behold your fathers have been smitten with the sword, and your sons and your daughters and your wives, are in captivity, in a strange land, as is now the case. ¹⁰ In this situation of affairs, I have it now at heart to enter into a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that he may turn away his fierce anger from us. ¹¹ Now therefore be not backward, seeing the Lord hath made choice of you to stand before him, to minister, and to be continually employed in his service, and in offering incense. ¹² Thereupon these Levites arose, namely, Maath, the son of Amasi, and Joel, the son of Azarias of the Kaathites; and of the Merarites, Kis, the son of Abdi, and Azarias, the son of Ilaelel; and of the Gersonites, Jodad, the son of Zemmath, and Joadam, who were descendants of Joacha; ¹³ and of the Elisaphanites, Zambri and Jeiel; and of the Asaphites, Zacharias and Matthanias; ¹⁴ and of the Aimonites, Jeiel and Semei; and of the Idithunites, Samaias and Oziel; ¹⁵ and having assembled their brethren, they purified themselves according to the king's command, in the manner prescribed by the Lord, that they might purify the house of the Lord. ¹⁶ And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to purify it, and threw out all the filth, found in the house of the Lord, into the court of the Lord's house; and the Levites took it up and threw it out into the brook Kedron. ¹⁷ On the first day of the first month, at the new moon, they began to purify. And on the eighth day of the month, they came to the temple of the Lord. And having purified the house of the Lord in eight days, and completely finished on the thirteenth of the first month, ¹⁸ they went to king Ezekias, and said, We have purified all that are in the house of the Lord, the altar of whole burnt offerings, with the utensils thereof, and the table for the presence loaves, with its utensils, and have prepared and hallowed ¹⁹ all the utensils which king Achaz polluted in his reign, during his apostasy. Behold they are before the altar of the Lord: ²⁰ Thereupon king Ezekias arose early in the morning, and having assembled the chiefs of the city, he went up to the house of the Lord, ²¹ and offered up seven young bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of the goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the holies, and for Israel. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord. ²² So when they slew the young bulls, the priests received the blood and poured it against the altar; and when they slew the rams, they poured the blood against the altar; and when they slew the lambs they poured the blood around the altar. ²³ Then they brought forward the goats, for a sin offering, before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands on them; ²⁴ and the priests slew them. And when they made atonement with their blood against the altar, they made it for all Israel, because the king said, The whole burnt offerings, and the sin offerings are for all Israel. ²⁵ Now he had stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals and with nablas and kinyras, according to the command of David the king, and of Gad the king's seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the institution was ordained at the command of the Lord, by the ministry of prophets. ²⁶ So the Levites stood with the musical instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷ And when Ezekias gave orders to carry up the whole burnt offering on the altar, and they began to carry it up, the musicians began the song of praise to the Lord, and the trumpets sounded in concert with the musical instruments of David king of Israel, ²⁸ and all the congregation worshipped. And the musicians continued singing, and the trumpets sounding until the whole burnt offering was finished. ²⁹ And when they who carried it up, had completely finished, the king, and all present, bowed down. And when they had worshipped, ³⁰ Ezekias the king, and the chiefs, ordered the Levites to praise the Lord, in the words of David, and of Asaph the prophet. And when they had sung praises with gladness, they fell on their faces and worshipped. ³¹ Then Ezekias addressing the people, said, As you have now filled your hands for the Lord, present and bring the sacrifices of thanksgiving for the household of the Lord. Thereupon the congregation brought up sacrifices and thank offerings for the household of the Lord, and every one liberally disposed brought whole burnt offerings.

¹ A Prayer of David. Hearken, Lord, to my justification; attend to my supplication: give ear to my prayer which is not made with feigned lips.

⁶ add not to his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar.

⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

¹ Hear these things, ye house of Jacob, ye who are called by the name of Israel! ye who are descendants of Juda! ye who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention of it, but not with truth, nor with righteousness; ² and who stay themselves on the name of this holy city, and rely for support on the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of Hosts. I have already told you former things:

² Day after day they seek me, and desire to know my ways; like a people who have practised righteousness, and who have not forsaken the ordinance of God. They now ask of me a just decision and desire to draw near to God. ³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul.

¹⁰ and for all this the treacherous Juda turned not to me with her whole heart but only feignedly.

² They say, "As the Lord liveth." Do they not on this very account swear to falsehoods?

² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

² came to Jeremias the prophet and said to him, Have compassion on us, we beseech thee and pray to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left only few of many as thine eyes see. ³ Now let the Lord thy God point out to us the way which we should go and what we are to do. ⁴ Whereupon Jeremias said to them, I have heard. Behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God according to your words and whatever answer the Lord our God shall give that I will declare to you. I will not hide anything from you.

²⁰ For now you must be sensible that you did evil in your hearts when you sent me saying, Pray for us to the Lord, and we will act conformably to all that the Lord shall say to thee.

³¹ They come to thee as people assemble; and they sit before thee and hear thy words, but will not do them, because there is a lie in their mouth, and their heart goeth after their pollutions; ³² therefore thou art to them like the sound of a tuneful psaltery: they will hear thy words, but will not do them: ³³ but when they come to pass they will say, "Lo! they are come!" And they will know that there was a prophet among them.

² Why do thy disciples transgress the doctrine of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ In reply to which he said to them, Why do you transgress the commandment of God, from a regard to your doctrines? ⁴ For God commanded saying, "Honour thy father and thy mother, and whosoever revileth father or mother let him be put to death: ⁵ but you say, "Whoever shall say to his father or to his mother, Let that by which thou mightest be benefited by me, be dedicated, ⁶ must not honour either his father or his mother." Thus you have annulled the commandment of God from a regard to your doctrines. ⁷ Hypocrites! well did Esaias prophesy concerning you, saying, ⁸ This people draw near to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me; ⁹ and, in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines, the commands of men.

² resort to him in a body, and seeing some of his disciples eating bread with unclean, that is with unwashen hands, they found fault. ³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, holding the doctrine of the elders, do not eat with out washing the hands with the doubled fist: ⁴ and if they come from the market they do not eat without dipping them. And there are many other usages which they have adopted, such as the dipping of cups, and pots, and brass vessels, and couches. ⁵ Therefore the Pharisees and the Scribes ask him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the doctrines of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? ⁶ In reply to which he said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you, hypocrites; as it is written, "This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷ And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines, the commands of men. ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, you adhere to the doctrine of men; the dipping of cups, and drinking vessels, and many other things, of the like nature. ⁹ Indeed said he to them, You fairly annul the commandment of God to make room for this doctrine of yours. ¹⁰ For Moses said, "Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Let him who curseth father or mother be put to death." ¹¹ But you say, "If a man say to his father, or to his mother, Let that be Corban, [that is to say dedicated,] by which thou mightest be benefitted by me;" ¹² do not then permit him any more to do any thing for his father or his mother;" ¹³ thus annulling the word of God, by this doctrine of yours, which you have handed down. And thus you act in many other instances.

²² which all tend to corruption by this improper use according to the injunctions and doctrines of those men.

¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.

³ And the spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them: and I will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground, namely the belly speakers.

¹¹ The princes of Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient kings? ¹² Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell thee publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath determined against Egypt. ¹³ The princes of Tanis have failed; and the princes of Memphis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by tribe. ¹⁴ For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as a drunkard doth, when he is vomiting.

²¹ Like a mountain of wicked men the Lord will rise up; and he will be in the valley of Gabaon. With wrath he will execute his work; a work of bitterness; and his wrath will attack in a strange manner; and its severity will be unusual.

⁹ [p] Be sunk in dejection and stand astonished; be drunk and reel, not with wine nor strong drink; ¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things,

⁷ The stork in the heaven knoweth her season; so doth the dove and the swallow of the field; the ostriches observed the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgments of the Lord. ⁸ How can you say, "We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us." In vain was it made; the scribes had a lying pen. ⁹ Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dismayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; therefore be their wisdom what it may,

⁷ Respecting Idumea. THUS said the Lord, There is no more any wisdom in Thaiman. Counsel is perished from the prudent. Wisdom is fled from them.

⁸ In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy wise men out of Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.

²⁴ for I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen them; and to hear what you hear, and have not heard them.

²⁹ We know that God spake to Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is. ³⁰ In reply to this the man said to them, Why; in this there is something marvellous, that you do not know whence he is, though he hath opened mine eyes. ³¹ Now we know that God hearkeneth not to sinners; but if any one be a worshipper of God, and do his will, to him he hearkeneth. ³² From the beginning of the world it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God he could do nothing. ³⁴ They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sin, and dost thou teach us? And they excommunicated him.

³⁹ Then Jesus said, I am come into this world for judgment that they who do not see may see, and that they who see may become blind; ⁴⁰ and some of the Pharisees who were with him, when they heard this, said, Are we blind? ⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent." ²⁰ Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this age? Hath not God shewn the wisdom of this world to be folly? ²¹ For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not, by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe; ²² so when the Jews demand a sign and the Greeks seek wisdom, ²³ as for us, we proclaim a crucified Christ; to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; ²⁴ but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft."

¹³ Yes, thou hast said, How can the Almighty know? Can he judge in darkness? ¹⁴ A cloud is his covering, so that be cannot be seen, though he traverse the circuit of heaven.

¹³ Now why hath he not called these to account while on earth? Though they did not acknowledge; though they did not know the way of justice; did they not still go on in their courses? ¹⁴ And hath he who knew their works delivered them up to darkness? And will he be as a thief in the night? ¹⁵ When the eye of the adulterer watched for darkness; saying, No eye shall discover me; when he having put a mask on his face ¹⁶ digged through houses in the dark: [during the day they had shut themselves up; they had no acquaintance with light] ¹⁷ because the morning is to all these as the shadow of death; because the terror of the shadow of death should acknowledge them;

²² nor can there be a place, where the workers of iniquity can be concealed."

¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing. ¹² Arise, Lord God, let thy hand be lifted up; Forget not the oppressed. ¹³ Why hath the wicked provoked God?; For he said in his heart, He will not make inquisition.

⁷ Behold they are to speak oraculously with their mouth; and have a sword in their lips; For who heard?

⁵ They strengthened for themselves an evil matter: they talked of hiding snares, saying, Who can see us? ⁶ They searched for iniquity: they failed in the search. A man is to come with a deep heart; and God is to be exalted.

¹¹ They indeed said, How doth God know? and, Is there any knowledge in the Most High?

⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern. ⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise. ⁹ Doth not he, who hath planted the ear, hear? And doth not he who formed the eye, see?

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts. ³ Thou has tracked my path and my line: and hast seen distinctly all my ways; ⁴ that there is not an evil word on my tongue. Behold thou, Lord, knowest all things; ⁵ the last and the things of earliest date. Thou hast formed me and laid thy hand on me. ⁶ This knowledge of thine is too wonderful for me. It is great beyond my comprehension. ⁷ Whither can I go from thy spirit? And from thy presence whither can I flee? ⁸ If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there. If I go down to the mansion of the dead, there thou art.

¹⁸ Woe unto them who draw out sins as for a long cable: and iniquities as for an ox chain: ¹⁹ who say, "Let what he is to do approach speedily that we may see; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come that we may know it."

¹⁵ Because you said, "We have made a covenant with death: and with the grave we have made a treaty: though the furious tempest may pass through, it will by no means reach us. We have made falsehood our refuge and by this falsehood we shall be saved."

¹⁷ And I will establish judgment for hope, and my mercy shall be for scales. But as for you who have vainly trusted in falsehood, that the tempest would not reach you;

¹ "AH rebellious children! saith the Lord, you have formed a design, but not by me: and thou hast made convenants, but not by my spirit, that you may add sins to sins.

¹⁰ Confiding in thy wickedness thou indeed saidst; "I am and there is none else." Know thou, the consciousness of these things and thy whoredom shall be thy shame. Thou indeed saidst in thy heart, "I am and there is none else;"

¹² Now I will declare my righteousness and thine evil deeds which shall not avail thee.

²⁴ Can any one hide himself in secret places; and I not see him? Do I not fill the heaven and the earth? saith the Lord.

¹² And he said to me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing, every one of them in this hidden apartment of theirs? For they said, The Lord doth not see. The Lord hath forsaken this land.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is exceeding great. Because the land is filled with many peoples and the city is filled with iniquity and impurity; and because they said, the Lord hath forsaken this land; the Lord doth not see;

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and execute vengeance on the men who are despisers; upon their stores. And as for them who say in their hearts, "The Lord will neither do good nor harm, "

¹⁷ You have provoked God with your sayings. And do you ask, By what have we provoked him? By your saying, "Every one doing evil doth that which is good in the sight of the Lord." Now were he well pleased with such; where then is the God of Righteousness?

¹ by which myriads of the people being drawn together, so as to trample upon one another, he took occasion to say to his disciples, Above all, things beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; ² for there is nothing concealed which shall not be disclosed; nor any thing hid, which shall not be known. ³ Because what you have said in the dark, will be heard in the light; and what you have whispered in closets will be proclaimed on the house tops;

¹⁹ And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light, because their works were evil.

⁵ So pass no judgment prematurely, until the Lord come, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and expose to view the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise for every one will be from God.

² but have renounced the secrets of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor dealing deceitfully with the word of God, but by the clear manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

²³ and I will slay her children with death; and all the congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of reins and hearts, and will give to every one of you according to your works.

¹ Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein.

⁹ Is any thing endowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a potter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? Will the clay say to the potter, "What art thou making?" Or the work to the Workman, "Thou hast not hands"" Will the thing formed reply against him who formed it? ¹⁰ Will one say to his father, What wilt thou beget? Or to his mother, What art thou bringing forth? ¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, even he who made the train of events; Do you question me concerning my children; and concerning the works of my hands give me directions!

⁸ But now, Lord, thou art our father. Though we are clay, we are all the works of thy hands:

¹ The word which came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying, ² "Arise and go down to the house of the potter and there thou shalt hear my words." ³ So I went down to the house of the potter; and behold he was making a piece of work on stones; ⁴ and the vessel, which he was fashioning with his hands, fell, whereupon he again made it a vessel of another sort as it seemed good to him to make it. ⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ⁶ Cannot I do with you, house of Israel, as this potter? Behold you are in my hands like the clay of the potter. ⁷ When I speak to a nation or kingdom; that I will remove and destroy them; ⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them. ⁹ And when I speak to a nation and kingdom that I will build up and replant: ¹⁰ If they do evil in my sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter my mind in respect to the good things which I spoke of doing for them.

⁶ but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brethren before the magistrates of the city, crying out, Those men who have turned the world upside down, are come here also;

¹⁹ wilt thou then say to me, Why doth he yet find fault, for who hath resisted his will? ²⁰ But who art thou, O man, who enterest into a dispute with God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? ²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay to make, out of the same lump, one vessel for honour, and another for dishonour?

⁶ he hath laid up in his heart steps for this mournful vale, to the place on which he hath fixed; for the lawgiver will indeed give blessings.

³³ He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and outlets of water into a thirsty land;

³⁵ He hath turned a desert into pools of water, and a thirsty soil into water springs:

⁶ and I will abandon my vineyard that it may neither be pruned nor digged; and brambles shall overrun it as a waste; and I will give a charge to the clouds not to shed rain upon it.

¹⁵ till a spirit come on you from on high. Then will a desert become a Channel and Channel will be accounted a forest;

¹ Rejoice, O desert; shout for joy, O thirsty desert and blossom like a lilly. ² Let the deserts of Jordan also bloom and rejoice; to it hath been given the glory of Lebanon an the honour of Channel. And my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of our God.

¹⁹ And I will plant in the dry wilderness the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress and elm:

⁵ And now thus saith the Lord who formed me from the womb. To be his servant to gather Jacob to him, and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified before the Lord. And my God will be my strength. ⁶ Moreover he said to me, Is it a great thing for thee to be called my servant to reestablish the tribes of Jacob and bring back the dispersion of Israel? Behold I have given thee for the covenant of a race; for the light of nations; that thou mayst be for salvation to the farthest part of the earth.

¹³ And instead of the briar, shall spring up the cypress; and instead of the thistle, shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign which shall not fail.

¹⁸ that we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain.

¹² you I will deliver up to the sword; you shall all bow down to slaughter. Because I called and you answered not: I spake and you would not listen; but did what is evil in my sight; and chose the things in which I did not delight; ¹³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold my servants shall eat; but you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink; but you shall be thirsty: behold my servants shall rejoice; but you shall be ashamed: ¹⁴ behold my servants shall triumph with joy: But you shall scream for sorrow of heart, and howl for anguish of spirit. ¹⁵ For you shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen. As for you, the Lord will destroy you; but to my servants, a new name shall be given ¹⁶ which shall be blessed on the earth: for they will bless the true God: and they who swear on the earth, will swear by the true God. For they will forget their former affliction and it shall not recur to their mind:

⁴⁶ son of man, set thy face against Thaiman and look towards Daram and prophesy against the forest at the head of Nageb, ⁴⁷ and thou shalt say to the forest of Nageb, hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, behold I am kindling a fire in thee, and it shall devour in thee every green tree and every dry tree; and the flame which is kindled shall not be extinguished; and by it the whole surface from south to north shall be burned up.

⁹ and he said, "Call his name "Not my people", since you are not my people and I am not your God." ¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God,

⁴ for the children of Israel shall continue many days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacrifice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and without manifestations;

¹² therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest.

³ for the vision is for a time yet to come. But it will spring up at last and will not be vain. Though he may tarry, wait for him; for he will assuredly come and will not fail.

⁶ for thus saith the Lord Almighty, Yet once more, I will shake the heaven and the earth including the sea and dry land,

¹ Open thy gates, O Libanus and let a fire devour thy cedars. ² Raise the mournful cry, pine tree, since the cedar is fallen, because the mighty are in great distress. Howl ye oaks of Basan, because the thick planted forest is rooted up.

³⁰ But many will be first who are last; and last, who are first.

¹⁸ In the morning, when he was coming to the city, he was hungry, ¹⁹ and seeing a fig tree near the way, he went to it and found nothing thereon but leaves. Whereupon he saith to it, Henceforward let no fruit ever grow on thee. And immediately the fig tree withered.

⁴³ Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits thereof.

¹¹ I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? No, by no means. But on this lapse of theirs the Gentiles have this salvation to provoke them to emulation. ¹² Now if this lapse of theirs is the riches of the world and the diminution of them is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more will their fulness be! ¹³ [For I tell you, Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I honour my office, ¹⁴ if I can any how excite to emulation them who are my flesh and save some of them]. ¹⁵ For if the casting of them off is the reconcilement of the world, what must the taking of them back be, but life from the dead? ¹⁶ Now if that portion which is set apart from an offering is holy, so will the mass be. And if the root is holy, so are the branches: ¹⁷ And if some of the branches are broken off, and thou being a wild olive art ingrafted among them and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

¹⁹ Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingraffed. ²⁰ Well! They were broken off for their disbelief, and thou standest for thy belief. Be not high minded; but fear; ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he may not spare thee. ²² Behold then the kindness and the severity of God: severity against them indeed who have fallen, and kindness to thee if thou continue in that kindness, otherwise thou also wilt be cut off. ²³ And with respect to them, if they continue not in their disbelief, they shall be ingraffed. For God is able to ingraff them again. ²⁴ For if thou hast been cut from a natural wild olive tree, and contrary to nature graffed on a good olive tree; how much more shall they that are natural branches be graffed on their own olive tree. ²⁵ For, that you, brethren, may not have too high an opinion of your selves, I would not have you ignorant of this secret, That a partial blindness hath come upon Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles shall have come in, ²⁶ and then at length all Israel shall be saved. As it is written "For the sake of Sion the Deliverer will come And turn away ungodliness from Jacob: ²⁷ And this shall be my covenant with them When I take away their sins.

³⁷ "For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come, and will not delay;

⁴ Now hath not the Lord God given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even at this day?

¹⁸ Open mine eyes, that I may discern the wonderous things of thy law.

¹² The ear heareth and the eye seeth; and both are the work of the Lord.

¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things, ¹¹ all these prophesies will be to you like the words of a book which is sealed: which when they give to a man skilled in letters, saying, Read this: He will say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed. ¹² And should the book be put in the hands of an illiterate man, and they say to him, Bead that, he will say, I do not know letters.

²⁴ And they who have erred in spirit will gain knowledge, and the murmurers shall be taught obedience, and the trifling tongues will learn to speak peace."

³ And they shall no more put confidence in men; but shall apply their ears to hear.

⁵ Then shall be opened the eyes of the blind; and the ears of the deaf will hear.

¹⁶ and lead the blind in a way which they know not, and cause them to walk in paths which they have not known. For them I will make the darkness light, and the crooked ways a straight road. These things 1 will do, and I will not forsake them: ¹⁷ but as for them they have turned backwards! be whelmed in shame, ye who trust in graven images; who say to the molten images, ye are our gods. ¹⁸ [p] Hear, ye deaf; and ye blind, look up that you may see:

³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know me from the greatest to the least of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities and no more remember their sins.

⁵ Blind men see, and lame walk. Lepers are cleansed and deaf hear. Dead are raised and poor have glad tidings proclaimed to them.

¹⁴ and in them is fulfilled this prophesy of Esaias, which saith, "Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand, and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ¹⁵ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return that I may heal them." ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

³⁷ And being struck with inexpressible amazement, said, He hath done all things well, he maketh the deaf hear, and the dumb speak.

¹⁸ The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor; to heal them who are broken hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives; and a recovery of sight, to the blind; to set at liberty the bruised;

²² And Jesus answering, said to them, Go and tell John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see; the lame walk; lepers are cleansed; deaf hear; dead are raised to life, and the poor have glad tidings proclaimed to them.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, They shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore who hath heard and learned from the Father, cometh to me.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they may receive a remission of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified by the belief in me.

¹⁴ Their minds were indeed blinded, for even to this day that very veil at the reading of the old covenant remaineth. That which is abolished by Christ is not unveiled, ¹⁵ but even at this day when Moses is read there is a veil upon their heart, ¹⁶ but when ever it shall turn to the Lord that veil will be taken away. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the spirit? And where the spirit of the Lord, is, there is liberty; and we all with an unveiled face viewing, as in a mirrour, the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord of spirit.

² but have renounced the secrets of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor dealing deceitfully with the word of God, but by the clear manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. ³ If then these glad tidings of ours are veiled, they are veiled by those perishing things, ⁴ with which the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the disbelieving, that the splendour of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is an image of God, may not shine upon them. ⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. ⁶ Because it is God, who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who hath shined in our hearts, to give a lustre of the knowledge of the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ;

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the acknowledgment of him ¹⁸ that He would enlighten the eyes of your understanding, that you may see what the hope of this invitation of his is; and what the riches of the glory of this inheritance of his, in the saints; ¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of this power of his for us who believe, corresponding to the energy of the strength of that power

¹⁴ therefore it is said, "Awake thou who sleepest and arise from the dead and the Christ will shine upon thee.

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

¹⁸ I advise thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayst be rich, and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayst see.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not be quite forgotten; the expectation of the needy shall never perish.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly.

⁹ he will guide the meek in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

¹¹ But the meek shall inherit the land, and delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

⁴ for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; and with salvation he will exalt the meek.

⁴ but he will administer justice to the lowly, and work conviction in the meek of the earth. And he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with a breath from his lips destroy the wicked.

³⁰ For the needy will be fed by him; and in peace the needy will repose. But with famine he will destroy thy seed; even the remnant of thy seed he will destroy.

³² what then will the kings of nations say in reply? "That the Lord hath founded Sion, and by him the poor of his people shall be saved."

¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirlwind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened in the sanctuaries of Israel; ¹⁷ and the poor and the needy shall exult with joy: for when they shall seek water and there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst; I the Lord their God, I the God of Israel will hear and will not forsake them; ¹⁸ but will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will turn the wilderness into watery fens, and with streams refresh the thirsty ground.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

¹ [M] THE SPIRIT of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are brokenhearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind:

¹⁰ And they shall rejoice in the Lord with joy.[c] Rejoice in the Lord, my soul, for he hath clothed me with the mantle of Salvation, and with an under garment of gladness, he hath crowned me as a bridegroom with a crown and adorned me as a bride, with jewels,

² For all these things my hand hath made: and all these things are mine saith the Lord. Upon whom therefore will I look down, but upon him only who is humble and quiet, and who trembleth at my words?

¹⁸ As for me, I will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour.

³ Seek the Lord all ye meek of the land; exercise judgment and seek righteousness, and live answerably; that you may be sheltered in the day of the anger of the Lord.

¹² and I will then expect in thee a meek and lowly people; ¹³ and the remnant of Israel will revere the name of the Lord, and no more commit iniquity, nor speak vain things; nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. [p] Because they shall feed and lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid. ¹⁴ Rejoice, daughters of Sion, Make proclamation, daughters of Jerusalem! Be glad and rejoice with thy whole heart, daughter of Jerusalem. ¹⁵ The Lord hath taken away thy transgressions; he hath redeemed thee out of the hand of thine enemies. The king of Israel; the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shalt no more see evils. ¹⁶ At that time the Lord will say to Jerusalem, " Take courage, Sion. Let not thy hands hang down. ¹⁷ The Lord thy God is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with joy as in the day of a festival; ¹⁸ when I have gathered those of you who have been bruised." [J] Ha! who is this that hath taken up a reproach against her?

³ Happy the poor in spirit; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

⁵ Happy the meek; for they shall inherit the land.

²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

²⁶ For observe, brethren, this call of you, that there are not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many of illustrious birth; ²⁷ but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world God hath made choice of to put to shame the strong ²⁸ and the ignoble of this world, and those of no account, God hath chosen; nay, the very nothings, to put a stop to the operation of the things which are, ²⁹ that no flesh might boast in his presence.

²² But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ meekness, temperance; against such things there is no law.

² with all humility and meekness; with long suffering, bearing with one another in love;

¹ if therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of spirit, if any compassion and tender mercies, ² complete my joy. In order that you may be like minded, exercising the same love, having your souls knit together, your minds bent on the one thing ³ upon nothing out of a spirit of contention or vain glory, but in lowliness of mind esteeming one another better than yourselves,

¹ Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write to you the same things is not troublesome to me; and to you it is safe. ² Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the concision; ³ for we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in flesh.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice.

⁹ Let the brother who is in low circumstances glory in his exaltation;

²¹ Therefore having thrown off all the filth and scum of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls;

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him?

¹³ Whoever among you is a man of wisdom and knowledge, let him, by a virtuous course of life, shew his works with the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad. ¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

¹ Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and every kind of hypocrisy, envy and slander, ² like newborn babes desire the pure milk of the word that by it you may thrive. ³ Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious,

³ it is I who command. It is I, who am leading these on. Giants are coming to execute my wrath, rejoicing and at the same time arrogant.

⁴ for thou hast been the support of every humble city and the defence of them who were dispirited; by reason of their weakness. From wicked men thou will deliver them. Thou art the support of the thirsty and the breath of men in distress. ⁵ [p] When dispirited men shall be thirsting in Sion on account of wicked men to whom thou hast delivered us up;

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye afflicted men, and ye rulers of this people in Jerusalem! ¹⁵ Because you said, "We have made a covenant with death: and with the grave we have made a treaty: though the furious tempest may pass through, it will by no means reach us. We have made falsehood our refuge and by this falsehood we shall be saved." ¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Sovereign Lord; behold I lay for the foundation of Sion a stone of inestimable worth; a chosen, precious corner stone for the foundations of it, and he who believeth shall not be ashamed. ¹⁷ And I will establish judgment for hope, and my mercy shall be for scales. But as for you who have vainly trusted in falsehood, that the tempest would not reach you; ¹⁸ and that it would not break your treaty with death; the hope which you have with respect to the grave shall not last: when the furious tempest cometh, by it you shall be beaten down. ¹⁹ When it cometh it will overtake you. Early, very early in the morning it will come, and at night your hope will be wretched. Learn to hear, " ²⁰ We are straitened for room, we cannot fight. We are weakened by your pressing upon us." ²¹ Like a mountain of wicked men the Lord will rise up; and he will be in the valley of Gabaon. With wrath he will execute his work; a work of bitterness; and his wrath will attack in a strange manner; and its severity will be unusual. ²² As for you therefore, be not filled with joy, yet let not your bonds gather strength. For the things are complete and decisive which I have heard from the Lord of Hosts; which he will execute on all this land.

⁵ then shall the riches of the wicked be as the dust of a wheel, and the multitude of thine oppressors as chaff blown away: and this shall be as in a moment, suddenly.

²⁵ For thus saith the Lord, When one captivateth a giant he shall take spoils. [a] But can one take from a mighty man and be safe? [b] But it is I who vindicateth thy cause, and I will deliver thy children.

¹³ and forgot test the God who made thee; him who made the heaven and founded the earth; and wast every day in continual dread of the furious countenance of thine oppressor. For how did he consult to carry thee away! But where now is the fury of thine oppressor?

⁴ None speaketh just things, nor is there any just judgment. They trusted in vanities and they speak lies. Because they hatch mischief, therefore they bring forth iniquity.

⁷ After this I beheld, and lo! a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong and its teeth of iron! It devoured and brake in pieces! and the residue it trampled with its feet. Now this was far different from all the beasts which were before it and it had ten horns.

¹⁹ Then I inquired particularly concerning the fourth beast, because it was different from every beast, exceedingly dreadful. Its teeth were of iron and its claws of brass. It devoured and brake in pieces and the residue it trampled with its feet. ²⁰ And concerning the ten horns, which were on its head, and that other, which sprouted up and shook off some of the first; and which had eyes and a mouth speaking great things and the appearance of which was greater than the rest, ²¹ I beheld and that horn made war on the holy ones and prevailed against them ²² until the Ancient of days came and gave judgment for the holy ones of the Most High, and the time came and the holy ones possessed the kingdom. ²³ And he said, With regard to the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on the earth which shall surpass all the kingdoms and devour all the earth and trample down and cut to pieces. ²⁴ And its ten horns denote that ten kingdoms shall be raised up; and after them another shall be raised up which shall exceed in evils all those before and shall humble three kings ²⁵ and shall speak words against the Most High and wear out the holy ones of the Most High and think of changing times and law, and his shall be put in its power for a time and times and the half of a time.

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God.

⁶ For lo! I am raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess dwellings which belong not to them. ⁷ He is terrible and illustrious; his judgment will be from himself, and from himself his prophesy will proceed.

⁶ Now there were some of the Scribes sitting there, and they were reasoning in their minds ⁷ "What! Doth this man thus utter blasphemies! Who can forgive sins but God only."

² and they watched him to see whether he would heal on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. ³ Thereupon he saith to the man who had the withered hand. Stand up in the midst. ⁴ Then he saith to them. Is h lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill? But they were silent. ⁵ Then looking round on them with indignation, being grieved for the blindness of their mind, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. Accordingly he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other. ⁶ Upon this the Pharisees went out, and immediately held a consultation with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

⁷ And the Scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would perform a cure on the sabbath day, that they might find matter of accusation against him.

¹⁴ Upon which the ruler of the synagogue, to express his indignation because Jesus cured on the sabbath day, addressed the people and said, There are six days on which work should be done: come therefore on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day. ¹⁵ Thereupon the Lord answered him, and said, Hypocrite! Doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead it to water? ¹⁶ And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo! these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? ¹⁷ And upon his saying this, all his opposers were ashamed, and the whole multitude expressed joy for all the glorious things which were done by him.

¹⁴ When the Pharisees who loved money heard all these things they treated him with scorn.

²⁰ Therefore, having watched him diligently, they sent to him spies who should feign themselves to be righteous men, that they might lay hold of some word of his, in order to deliver him up to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor. ²¹ So they asked him, saying, Teacher, we know that thou speakest and teachest uprightly, and that thou art not a respecter of persons, but teachest the way of God with truth. ²² Is it lawful for us to pay tribute to Caesar, or is it not? ²³ But he, knowing their craftiness, said to them, Why are you trying me?

¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers had treated him with contempt and mockery, having arrayed him with a splendid robe, he sent him back to Pilate.

³⁵ And the people stood looking on; and both they and the rulers mocked him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be the Christ, the chosen of God.

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. "Now is come salvation and the power and reign of our God and the authority of Christ himself; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;

⁶ And when any said, No, then they said to him, say Stachys. And if he did not pronounce it distinctly, they took him, and slew him at the passages of the Jordan. So there fell of Ephraim, at that time, forty two thousand men.

²¹ He who regardeth not the persons of the righteous, is not good: such a one will deliver up a man for a morsel of bread.

⁷ For the counsel of the wicked will devise unlawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment.

¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words."

⁷ [p] Hast thou, Lord deceived me? and have I been deceived? Thou hast taken hold and hast prevailed. I am become a subject of laughter: all the day long I endure reproach. ⁸ Because for my bitter word I am to be derided, shall I appeal to a breach of covenant and misery? because the word of the Lord became a reproach to me; a subject of mockery all the day long; ⁹ therefore I said, I will not name the name of the Lord; I will not speak any more in his name. But there was kindled as it were a burning fire in my bones and I became dejected and cannot bear it. ¹⁰ Because I heard the whisper of many collected from all around saying, "Join in conspiracy and let us all conspire against him; ye men who are his friends watch his thoughts; if he can be deceived, we shall then prevail over him and take our revenge on him."

² Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the court of the house of the Lord and thou shalt solemnly pronounce to all the Jews and to all who come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words which I have commanded thee to prophesy to them; keep not back a word. ³ Perhaps they may hearken and turn every one from his evil way, that I may refrain from all the evils which I am resolving to do to them, because of their wicked pursuits. ⁴ And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Unless you hearken to me so as to walk by the ordinances which I have set before you; ⁵ and hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, whom I, rising early, have sent to you, though you have not hearkened to them; ⁶ I will make this house like Selo; and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the whole earth. ⁷ So the priests and the false prophets and all the people heard Jeremias pronouncing these words in the house of the Lord. ⁸ And when Jeremias had done speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to deliver to all the people; the priests and the false prophets and all the people seized him, saying,

¹⁹ They have indeed inveigled souls and profaned me to my people, for a handful of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill souls which should not die; and to preserve souls alive which ought not to live, by your oracling to the people who hearken to vain oracles.

¹⁰ [J] They hated a reprover in the gates and held in abhorrence a holy word; ¹¹ therefore because they have beaten the poor with their fists, though you had received from them choice gifts; you have built houses of hewn stone; but in them you shall not dwell; you have planted lovely vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² [p] Because I know your manifold impieties and your sins are mighty: you trample down the righteous, take pledges and turn aside the poor in the gates;

¹⁰ Then Amasias the priest of Baithel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is raising insurrections against thee in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. ¹¹ For thus Amos saith, "Jeroboam shall die by the sword; and Israel shall be carried away captive from his land." ¹² Moreover Amasias said to Amos, "Begone, seer. Get thee to the land of Juda and dwell there; and prophesy there: ¹³ but against Baithel thou shalt not continue to prophesy; for it is the sanctuary of the king. It is the king's house." ¹⁴ Whereupon Amos answered and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor a son of a prophet. I was only a herdsman and a gatherer of dates; ¹⁵ and the Lord took me from the flocks and the Lord said to me, "Go and prophesy against my people Israel." ¹⁶ Now therefore hear a word of the Lord, Thou sayst, "Prophesy not against Israel, " and "Thou shalt not give any disturbance to Israel." ¹⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord. "Thy wife shall be a prostitute in the city; and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword; and thy land shall be measured out with a line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land; and Israel shall be carried captive from his land."

⁶ Weep not bitterly, nor let tears be shed for these things, for reproaches will not be cast oft even by him who saith, ⁷ "The house of Israel hath provoked to wrath the spirit of the Lord. Are not these his purposes? Are not his words good with him? Have these walked in a straight course?"

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹⁵ Then the Pharisees went out and consulted how they might ensnare him by a discourse.

¹⁵ and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him up to you. And they weighed to him thirty shekels of silver:

⁵³ Now while he was saying these things to them, the Scribes and the Pharisees took occasion to urge him vehemently, and provoke him to speak of many things, ⁵⁴ laying snares for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him;

¹⁴ you indeed renounced the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you.

⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you?

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

² Joshua said to all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt in old time Beyond the river, namely, Thara, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor. And they served other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the river, and led him through all this land, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaak; ⁴ and to Isaak, Jacob and Esau; and to Esau I gave mount Seir for a possession; but Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt, and became there a nation, great, numerous and powerful. And when the Egyptians afflicted them, ⁵ I smote Egypt with signal miracles, which I did among them.

⁷ Thou art the Lord God. Having made choice of Abram, thou didst lead him out from the country of the Chaldees and give him the name of Abraham. ⁸ And finding his heart faithful before thee, thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, even to his seed, and hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous.

⁸ but thou Israel my servant; thou Jacob, whom I have chosen; thou seed of Abraham whom I loved! ⁹ have I not taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the speculations thereof called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant I have chosen thee and have not forsaken thee.

¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, diminutive Israel! I have helped thee, saith thy God, who redeemeth thee, Israel.

²¹ Remember these things, Jacob, even thou Israel, for thou art my servant. I have made thee my servant; therefore O Israel do not thou forget me. ²² For, lo! I have made thy transgressions vanish like a cloud; and thy sins like the murky vapour. Return to me and I will redeem thee. ²³ [c] Rejoice, O heavens! because God hath compassionated Israel. Utter sounds of joy, ye foundations of the earth! Burst forth into songs, ye mountains and hills, and all ye trees which are thereon! Because God hath redeemed Jacob and Israel shall be glorified. [[c] the chorus] ²⁴ [J] Thus saith the Lord, who redeemed thee; even He who formed thee from the womb; I am the Lord the Maker of all things; I alone stretched out the heavens and firmly established the earth. ²⁵ Who else can dispel from the heart the signs of belly speakers and divinations? I am he who turneth sages backwards and maketh their counsel foolish; ²⁶ but establisheth the word of his servant, and verifieth the counsel of his messengers; who saith to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be inhabited;" and to the cities of Idumea, "Ye shall be re builded, and in its deserts vegetation shall spring up:"

¹⁷ The Lord hath saved Israel with an everlasting salvation. They shall not be put to shame nor confounded any more forever.

²⁵ On account of the Lord they shall be acquitted; and in God all the seed of Israel will glory.

³ Hearken to me house of Jacob and all ye remnant of Israel, who have been carried from the womb, and instructed from childhood to old age; ⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.

⁷ Thus saith the Lord who delivered thee; the God of Israel, "Hallow him who despised his life, him who was abhorred by the nations, the slaves of the Arehons. Kings shall see him and chiefs shall rise up and they shall worship him for the sake of the Lord; because the Holy One of Israel is faithful, therefore I have chosen thee. ⁸ Thus saith the Lord, "In an acceptable time I have hearkened to thee, and in a day of salvation helped thee; and have formed thee and given thee for the covenant of nations that thou mayst reduce the earth to order and possess desolate heritages, ⁹ saying to them who are in bonds, Go forth; and to them who are in darkness, "Come into light." In all the highways they shall be fed, and there shall be pasture for them in all the paths. ¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor shall they thirst, nor shall the burning wind nor the sun smite them; but he who hath compassion on them will comfort them and lead them to bursting springs of water. ¹¹ And I will make every mountain a highway, and every path a pasture for them. ¹² Behold they from afar shall come, some from the north and the west and others from the land of the Persians." ¹³ [c] Rejoice heavens; and let the earth be glad, let the mountains resound with bursts of joy; for God hath compassionated his people, and comforted those of his people who were afflicted. ¹⁴ [M] Hath Sion then said, "The Lord hath quite forsaken me, "and, "Why hath the Lord forgotten me?" ¹⁵ can a woman forget her child? or not have compassion on the offspring of her womb? Grant that a woman may forget even these, but I will not forget thee, said the Lord. ¹⁶ Behold I have engraven thy walls on my hands; and thou art continually before me. ¹⁷ And thou shalt be speedily rebuilt by them who destroyed thee; and they who laid thee waste shall become thine offspring. ¹⁸ Look up with thine eyes all around and view them all; behold they are gathered together and coming to thee. As I live saith the Lord, Thou shalt clothe thyself with them all, as with raiment, and wrap them about thee as a bride doth her dress. ¹⁹ Because thy waste and desolate and ruinated places will now be too narrow for the inhabitants, and they who devoured thee shall be removed far from thee; ²⁰ therefore thy sons whom thou hast lost will say in thine ears, This place is too strait for me: make room for me, where I may dwell. ²¹ Whereupon thou wilt say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me? I indeed was childless and a widow, Who then hath brought up these for me? I was abandoned and alone; whence then have I these? ²² Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daughters on their shoulders: ²³ and kings shall be thy foster fathers; and their queens thy nursing mothers. And on the face of the ground they shall pay thee homage, and lick the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that they who wait for me shall not be ashamed. ²⁴ [a] Can any one take spoils from a giant? [b] And if any one captivate unjustly shall he be safe. ²⁵ For thus saith the Lord, When one captivateth a giant he shall take spoils. [a] But can one take from a mighty man and be safe? [b] But it is I who vindicateth thy cause, and I will deliver thy children. ²⁶ And they who afflicted thee shall eat their own flesh, and drink like new wine their own blood and be made drunk; and all flesh shall know that it is I the Lord who delivered thee. And who uphold the strength of Israel.

² Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who brought you forth. For he was an individual when I called him; and I blessed him and loved him and multiplied him.

¹¹ For under the guidance of the Lord they shall be brought back, and shall come to Sion with joy and everlasting gladness; for praise shall crown their head and joy shall overtake them. Grief and sorrow and sighing are fled.

⁴ Be not terrified because thou hast been exposed to shame; nor blush because thou hast been reproached. For thou shalt forget the shame of ancient times, and the reproach of thy widowhood

¹ Be enlightened: be enlightened, Jerusalem! for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. ² Behold darkness will cover the earth and thick darkness the nations: but upon thee the Lord will shine and his glory over thee will be conspicuous. ³ And kings will walk by thy light: and nations by thy splendour. ⁴ Raise thine eyes around and behold thy children gathered together; all thy sons are come from afar, and thy daughters shall be carried on shoulders. ⁵ Then thou wilt look and be filled with awe and astonished at heart; because the riches of the sea and of nations and peoples will pour in upon thee. ⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified. ⁸ [c] Who are those? They are flying like clouds, and like doves with their young towards me! ⁹ [J] For me the islands waited, and among the first the ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious;

⁷ Thus shall they again inherit the land; and everlasting joy shall be on their head. ⁸ For I am the Lord who love righteousness and hate the spoils of injustice; and I will give the righteous the fruit of their toil and make an everlasting covenant with them ⁹ and their seed shall be distinguished among the nations? and their offspring in the midst of peoples. Every one who seeth them will know them, that they are a seed whom God hath blessed. ¹⁰ And they shall rejoice in the Lord with joy.[c] Rejoice in the Lord, my soul, for he hath clothed me with the mantle of Salvation, and with an under garment of gladness, he hath crowned me as a bridegroom with a crown and adorned me as a bride, with jewels, ¹¹ and like the earth blooming with flowers. And as a garden causeth its seeds to vegetate, so will the Lord cause righteousness to spring up and joy in the presence of all nations.

¹⁶ For thou art our father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not acknowledged us; do thou, Lord, our father, do thou deliver us. From the beginning thy name is upon us;

⁵ Thus said the Lord, You shall hear the sound of terror. It is terror and not peace. ⁶ Inquire and see! Hath a male ever brought forth? Now with respect to the terror, in which they will hold their loins, it is indeed for a deliverance. [p] Why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins? Their faces are turned to paleness. ⁷ [J] It is because that great day is come which is unparalleled. It is indeed a distressful time to Jacob, but by this he shall be saved.

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¹⁰ Hear the words of the Lord, ye nations! and proclaim them to the far distant isles. Say, He, who scattered Israel, will gather them, and guard them as a shepherd doth his flock. ¹¹ Because the Lord hath redeemed Jacob; hath rescued him out of the hand of them who were stronger than he; ¹² therefore they shall come and rejoice on mount Sion. They shall indeed come to the good things of the Lord; to a land of corn and wine, and of fruits and herds and flocks; and their soul shall be like a fruitful tree; and they shall no more be hungry.

²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them,

²⁸ And the nations shall know that I am the Lord who sanctifieth them, by my sanctuary being in the midst of them forever.

²⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will now bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion on the house of Israel. And I will shew a zeal for my holy name, ²⁶ when they shall have suffered disgrace, for the rebellion of which they were guilty, when they dwelt peaceably in their own land. And there shall be none to make them afraid, ²⁷ when I have brought them back from among the nations and gathered them from the countries of the nations. So I shall be hallowed by them in the sight of the nations ²⁸ and they shall know that I the Lord am their God, when I manifest myself to them among the nations. ²⁹ And I will no more turn away my face from them, for as much as I have poured out my wrath on the house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord.

²⁵ And its windows and the ailammons around were the same as the windows of that other ailam. Its length was fifty cubits and its breadth twenty five cubits. ²⁶ And it had seven steps and an ailammon on the inside. It had also palm trees on each side over the aileus. ²⁷ And this gate was directly opposite to the south gate of the inner court; and he measured the court from gate to gate and the breadth on the south side was a hundred cubits. ²⁸ Then he led me to the inner court of the gate facing the south, and he measured that gate, and its dimensions were the same as those mentioned, ²⁹ and its Thees and its aileus and its ailammons were of the like dimensions. And there were windows to it and to the ailammon round about. Its length was fifty cubits and the breadth of its ailam on the outer court was twenty five cubits, ³⁰ [Omitted] ³¹ and there were palm trees over the aileus and it had eight steps. ³² Then he led me to the gate facing the east, and measured it according to the same measures. ³³ And its Thees and its aileus and its ailammons were of the measures above mentioned and it had windows and an ailammon round about. Its length was fifty cubits and its breadth twenty five cubits. ³⁴ And its ailammon was on the inner court, and there were palm trees over the aileu on each side. And there were eight steps up to it. ³⁵ Then he led me to the north gate and measured it according to the same measures. ³⁶ And it had its Thees and its aileus and its ailammons and its windows around it, and an ailammon peculiar to it. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty five cubits. ³⁷ And its ailammons were on the outer court, and there were palm trees to the aileu, on each side and eight steps up to it. ³⁸ Its houses for the priests, and its doors and its ailammon were at the second gate. At this gate facing the north there was a common sewer, ³⁹ that they might there kill the sin offerings and the trespass offerings. ⁴⁰ And behind the sewer of the burnt offerings there were at this gate facing the north, two tables facing the east. Also back of the second gate, and of the ailam of the gate were two tables on the east side. ⁴¹ There were four on one side, and four on the other, back of this gate. Upon these they slay the burnt offerings. And over against these eight tables for the burnt offerings, ⁴² there were four tables of hewn stone for the whole burnt offerings. The breadth of these was a cubit and a half, and the length two cubits and a half, and the height one cubit. On these are to be laid the instruments with which they kill the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices. ⁴³ They have therefore each of them a border of a hand breadth hewn on the inside all around; and over these tables there is a covering to defend them from the rain, and the heat of the sun. ⁴⁴ Then he led me into the inner court; and lo! there were two apartments on the inner court; one behind the north gate facing the south; and one behind the south gate facing the north. ⁴⁵ And he said to me, This apartment which faceth the south is for the priests, who keep the watch of the house, ⁴⁶ and that apartment facing the north is for the priests who have the charge of the altar, namely the sons of Sadduk, the only Levites who come near to the Lord to minister to him. ⁴⁷ Then he measured this court which was a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, being four square. And the altar was on one side in front of the house. ⁴⁸ Then he led me to the ailam of the house and measured the ail of the ailam, five cubits the breadth on each side and the width of the gateway was fourteen cubits; and the cheeks of the door of the ailam were three cubits on the one side and three cubits on the other.

²⁷ And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I the Lord am your God and besides me there is no other; and my people shall never be put to shame.

⁶⁸ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; because he hath visited and delivered his people.

¹¹ I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? No, by no means. But on this lapse of theirs the Gentiles have this salvation to provoke them to emulation. ¹² Now if this lapse of theirs is the riches of the world and the diminution of them is the riches of the Gentiles, how much more will their fulness be! ¹³ [For I tell you, Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I honour my office, ¹⁴ if I can any how excite to emulation them who are my flesh and save some of them]. ¹⁵ For if the casting of them off is the reconcilement of the world, what must the taking of them back be, but life from the dead? ¹⁶ Now if that portion which is set apart from an offering is holy, so will the mass be. And if the root is holy, so are the branches: ¹⁷ And if some of the branches are broken off, and thou being a wild olive art ingrafted among them and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, ¹⁸ boast not against the branches. But if thou boast [remember that] thou dost not support the root, but the root supporteth thee. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingraffed. ²⁰ Well! They were broken off for their disbelief, and thou standest for thy belief. Be not high minded; but fear; ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he may not spare thee. ²² Behold then the kindness and the severity of God: severity against them indeed who have fallen, and kindness to thee if thou continue in that kindness, otherwise thou also wilt be cut off. ²³ And with respect to them, if they continue not in their disbelief, they shall be ingraffed. For God is able to ingraff them again. ²⁴ For if thou hast been cut from a natural wild olive tree, and contrary to nature graffed on a good olive tree; how much more shall they that are natural branches be graffed on their own olive tree.

¹⁸ knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open the seals of it, because thou hast been slain and hast purchased us for God with thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;

³ Whereupon Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, I will be hallowed by them who come near me, and glorified by all the congregation; and Aaron was pierced with anguish.

¹⁶ and the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment; and God, the Holy One, shall be glorified by righteousness;

¹³ hallow the Lord himself, and let him be thy fear:

²⁵ saying, "Blessed is my people which is in Egypt, and which is in Assyria and Israel which is mine inheritance."

²¹ my people whom I have preserved to recount my praises.

¹¹ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, even he who made the train of events; Do you question me concerning my children; and concerning the works of my hands give me directions!

²¹ And thy people shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever, preserving the plant, the works of their hands, for glory.

⁵ and afterwards the children of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and will be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the last days.

⁹ In this manner therefore pray ye, "Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy name;

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, fitted by Christ Jesus for good works, for which God had before prepared us that we might walk therein.

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of the world are become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for the ages of the ages. ¹⁶ And the four and twenty elders who were seated on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, ¹⁷ saying, "We thank thee O Lord, the God, the Almighty who is and who was and who is to come, because thou hast assumed thy great power and commenced thy reign.

⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.

⁵ And there came out from the throne a voice, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants and ye who fear him, both small and great.

⁷ For by wine these were made transgressors; they were led astray by strong drink. Priest and prophet were stupefied with strong drink; they were gorged with wine; they were agitated by drunkenness; they reeled to8 and fro. This is oracling!

¹⁰ for the Lord hath drenched you with a spirit of stupefaction, and will close up the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As for your seers of hidden things, ¹¹ all these prophesies will be to you like the words of a book which is sealed: which when they give to a man skilled in letters, saying, Read this: He will say, I cannot read it, for it is sealed.

²¹ and thine ears will hear the words of the deceivers behind thee who say, This is the way let us walk in it, whether to the right or left;

²⁰ that they may see and know, and consider and understand at once that the hand of the Lord hath done these things; even what the Holy One of Israel hath pointed out.

¹⁶ And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and feed on the wealth of kings, and shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and that thy Redeemer is the God of Israel.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

²⁸ But what think you? A man had two sons. And coming to the first, he said, Son, go work today in my vineyard.

³⁰ And he in reply said, I will not. But afterwards he repented and went. And coming to the second, he ordered him in like manner; and he in reply said, I will, sir; but did not go. ³¹ Which of the two did the will of his father? They say to him, The first. Jesus saith to them, Verily I say to you, The publicans and the harlots lead the way for you to the kingdom of God. ³² For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him. And though you saw this, you did not afterwards repent and believe him.

⁴⁷ For what reason? I tell thee. Her sins which are many, are forgiven her; therefore her love is great. But he to whom little is forgiven, hath little love.

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger? ¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

³⁷ Upon hearing this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, What shall we do?

⁷ So the word of God spread, and the number of disciples was greatly multiplied in Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests became obedient to the faith.

¹⁹ and having taken some food, he was strengthened. And Saul was some days with the brethren in Damascus, ²⁰ and forthwith, in the synagogues proclaimed Jesus that he is the son of God.

¹¹ Now such some of you were; but, you have washed yourselves; but you are hallowed, but you are acquitted by the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.

¹³ who was before a reviler, and a persecutor, and an outrageous offender: but I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly, in unbelief. ¹⁴ And this favour of our Lord superabounded with faith and love which is by Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ This is a faithful word and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am a chief;

² being able to treat the ignorant and wandering with moderation and compassion, encompassed as he himself is with infirmity;

² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years ³ and cast him into the bottomless gulf and shut him up, and sealed it on him that he might not lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were ended. And after that he must be loosed for a short time.